Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will take good care that their illiteracy is not made a reproach on them.

quote by Katharine Fullerton Gerould
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As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism.

quote by Dennis Potter
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A Promise to eradicate illiteracy

A Promise to eradicate
Illiteracy

The dark veil of flowing illiteracy,
As a canopy on our growing democracy;
Covers many crores of our great lot,
Under which teeming with ignorance, rot.

Unaware of the goings on around,
Stark illiteracy with poverty bound;
The window of the wide world is shut,
And the kaleidoscopic view of the panorama is cut.

The spiritual and intellectual devolpment,
Not sparked off by literary involvement,
Is a curse on the person and the nation,
As multitudes live like animals sans education.

Seized of the problem, in many a country,

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poem by Chandra Thiagarajan
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We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education... We ignore the air we breathe until it is thin or foul. Cultural literacy is the oxygen of social intercourse.

quote by E.D. Hirsch, Jr.
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The will does not learn.

The ass has a will to bear,
The bull has a will to be yoked.
The dog to wag and the fox
To cheat have their wills.
No literacy can change it.
No illiteracy can stop it.
07.12.2002

poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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Film should be looked at straight on, it is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.

quote by Werner Herzog
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Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.

quote by Marshall McLuhan
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Illiteracy is rampant. People are out of communication.

quote by Karen Black
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Just carrying a ruler with you in your pocket should be forbidden, at least on a moral basis. The ruler is the symbol of the new illiteracy. The ruler is the symptom of the new disease, disintegration of our civilization.

classic quote by Friedensreich Hundertwasser
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You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.

quote by Werner Herzog
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Is it possible that literacy standards are falling because young Australians are growing up in a culture in which they can be entertained and informed, and in which they can communicate effectively, without having to master any but the most rudimentary literacy skills?

quote by Hugh Mackay
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The hall-mark of American humour is its pose of illiteracy.

quote by Ronald Knox
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I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.

quote by J.D. Salinger
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There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health.

quote by C. Everett Koop
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No, I consider myself computer illiterate.

quote by Casper Van Dien
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Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.

quote by Alan Brien
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To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees.

quote by Munshi Premchand
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You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.

quote by George W. Bush
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Illiterate- define

Illiterate is
Who does not know to read and write.
It is the second millennium.

Illiterate is
Who does not know to use the computer.
It is the third millennium.
06.04.2000, Palakkad

poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us.

quote by Katharine Fullerton Gerould
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